Sergey Brin
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Oracle CEO Ellison's salary drops to US$1
News Larry Ellison agrees to receive symbolic salary for fiscal 2010, putting hiim on same package as other tech chiefs. But world's fourth wealthiest person won't starve.
Tags: Business applications, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Databases, Apple Inc., Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Compensation, Forbes, Stock, Larry Page
After 5 years, Firefox faces new challenges
Insight Mozilla helped reshape the Web since releasing Firefox 1.0 five years ago. Now it's got a reawakened Microsoft and Google Chrome to reckon with.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web browsers, Open Source, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., software, Web 2.0, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp.
Google losing aversion to advertising itself
News The Internet company is getting more serious about promoting its brand in a variety of ways, including plain old ads, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Legal, Advertising, Marketing, Google Inc., Advertisement, advertising agency, co-founder, Eric Schmidt, China, Wall Street Journal
Sergey Brin: Yahoo shouldn't abandon search
News In a surprise Web 2.0 Summit talk, Google co-founder says he welcomes new search competition and is disappointed that Yahoo is backing off.
Tags: Search, Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Conference, Sergey Brin, social search, Web 2.0
Google co-founder, wife give US$500K to Creative Commons
News Sergey Brin and 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki donate half a million to copyright reform group, to help build out its science initiative.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Creative Commons, Sergey Brin, co-founder, financial, founder, blog
A Google Wave reality check
News Search giant's new combo product dazzled developers two months ago. Now comes the hard part: getting rid of the bugs.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Business applications, Web 2.0, Web services, Conference, Sergey Brin, Google Inc., payroll, Larry Page, co-founder
Top Google execs: US$1 salary, no bonus, no options
News Maybe there is such a thing as enough money. Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page got no salary, bonus, stock grants, or stock options in 2008.
Tags: Stock options and grants, Sergey Brin, Google Inc., Compensation, stock grant, Stock, Larry Page, stock compensation, Stock options and grants, Salary
Does Microsoft's Bing have Google running scared?
News Microsoft's rival search engine made Google co-founder Sergey Brin so upset that he has top engineers working on "urgent upgrades", according to New York Post report.
Tags: Search, Sergey Brin, Google Inc., Search Engine, New York Post, Advertisement, co-founder, CEO, Eric Schmidt, Search
Google cutting contractor workforce
News The search giant confirms "significant" cuts are coming for the company's 10,000 contractors--as its co-founder already said in October.
Tags: Budgeting/cost control, Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Workforce, Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, layoff, YouTube Inc., News.com, San Jose Mercury News
Google's Brin: Time to speed up Web
News Even though the Web is becoming the dominant development environment for applications, online performance still has a way to go, says Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Tags: Web services, Web sites, Digital media, Sergey Brin, Google Inc., Web Application, Advertisement, Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., performance
Gunning for an elephant in Silicon Valley
News Tiny Arista, started by a Sun co-founder, is challenging Cisco with superfast networking gear.
Tags: Data Management, Database management, Data warehousing/business intelligence, Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Equinix, software, network, Andreas Bechtolsheim, Cisco Systems Inc.
Google CEO: Full steam ahead Yahoo ad deal
News Regulators have not shared any opinions yet, so Google plans to go ahead with its search-ad deal with Yahoo.
Tags: Internet advertising, Search, Antitrust, Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Yahoo! Inc., Advertisement, phone, Regulator, YouTube Inc.
Stable version of Chrome 3.0 released
News Google has completed work on a stable version of its Chrome browser, officially adding support for new Web video technologies and tweaking a few key features.
Tags: Web browsers, Sergey Brin, Plug-in, Web Browser, Video, Apple Macintosh, I/O, co-founder, Netbook, Web browsers
Google doles out US$6.3M in exec bonuses
News Filing shows company issued US$6.3 million in bonuses to its executive team for 2008, with its new CFO landing a US$1.24 million bonus after five months on the job.
Tags: Internet advertising, Bonus, CFO, Sergey Brin, Google Inc., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Larry Page, millionaire, Eric Schmidt, senior vice president
Schmidt plans talks with Apple over board role
News Following Google's announcement of its Chrome OS project, CEO Eric Schmidt and Apple might have to consider his board service in a new light.
Tags: Operating systems, Personal Computers, Apple Inc., Conference, Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, operating system, Eric Schmidt, Apple iPhone
